Guidelines and Levels of Care for Pediatric Intensive Care Units
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Guidelines and levels of care for pediatric intensive care units.
The practice of pediatric critical care medicine has matured dramatically during the past decade. These guidelines are presented to update the existing guidelines published in 1993. Pediatric critical care services are provided in level I and level II units. Within these guidelines, the scope of pediatric critical care services is discussed, including organizational and administrative structure...
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عنوان ژورنال: PEDIATRICS
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0031-4005,1098-4275
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2004-1599